Staff Software Engineer (Applied AI)
About The Position
Traba is building an AI operating system for the industrial supply chain. The Staff Software Engineer will build Traba’s product on top of AI agents, putting frontier models and existing agents to work across the staffing marketplace to automate the sourcing, vetting, matching, and placement of workers. The role owns core backend services and platform engineering, applying the agent platform across the stack in production. Priorities may shift among agent infrastructure, matching, data, and scaling challenges. As a member of the founding team, this engineer will partner with the CTO on architectural decisions, help shape the roadmap, and build a foundational platform designed to scale over the coming years. The role focuses on applying AI agents to real products and leading the team’s engineering standards, while the AI Agents team builds the agent platform and orchestration internals.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience with TypeScript/Node.js or Python, PostgreSQL, and messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- A track record of shipping and leading projects at scale with high velocity.
- Deep full-stack experience designing performant, scalable applications, with expertise in APIs, data modeling, query optimization, and distributed systems.
- Ability to take ownership of ambiguity and direction in an early-stage environment.
- Ability to learn across areas ranging from API design to deployment infrastructure.
Nice To Haves
- Experience building or integrating AI/LLM systems in production.
Responsibilities
- Set the standard for applying agents across the stack to automate the staffing pipeline and for using AI-assisted tooling.
- Architect and lead core systems, including real-time matching and autonomous vetting pipelines powered by machine learning and agents.
- Own platform architecture and anticipate the company’s needs one or two years ahead.
- Drive backend performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Partner with the CTO on architectural decisions and iterate on the roadmap.
- Apply frontier models and existing agents in production across the staffing marketplace.
Benefits
- Start-up equity.
- Competitive salary.
- 100% paid health, dental, and vision coverage.
- Dinner provided via DoorDash, free DashPass, and a stocked kitchen for New York employees.
- Commuter benefit.
- Gympass benefit.
- One Medical membership.
- HSA via Optum.
- Talkspace.
- HealthAdvocate.
- Teledoc Health.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
